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#! rnews 2086 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news1.mpcs.com!anon.lcs.mit.edu!nym.alias.net!mail2news Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 22:36:22 -0600 From: "Igor Chudov @ home" <ichudov@algebra.com> Message-ID: <199702210436.WAA14593@manifold.algebra.com> Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Cc: ichudov@manifold.algebra.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft Organization: Live Free or Die -- www.linux.org Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:160008 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2564 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:53879 comp.os.os2.advocacy:268866 Tim O'Neil (toneil@visigenic.com) wrote in <330C30C0.2FA@visigenic.com>: * > > Microsoft has *never* created an editor with anything remotely like * > > the usability and power of vi! * > * > You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with * > one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''. (No, you don't need * > to explain me vi in your followup. I'm using it, as well as one or * > two other editors.) * * I thought vi was the ultimate evil in the universe until I realized that * unlike just about anything else I could count on vi being present * whenever * installed a new unix system. And after I got a short readme on it, I'm * pretty comfortable with it. Its ok for quick editing jobs. Once I * figured * out the basics, like how to search, go to the top and bottom of the * buffer, * and do simple cuts and pastes, its no big deal. I still prefer to use * emacs when I do my major code building and whatnot though. I have recently installed Windows NT (spit), and its editors (notepad and edit) and file manager made me puke. The only moment when I felt somewhat better about that system was when I installed bash and vim. igor